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Analyzing Statistics - Airplane Crashes  

New2Midlo 54M
666 posts
6/21/2021 7:00 pm

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7/16/2021 10:49 am
Analyzing Statistics - Airplane Crashes

While surfing random material today, I came across the following statistic:
80% of airplane crashes occur during either the first eight minutes or the last three minutes of the flight. I would argue that 0% of crashes occur within the last seconds of the flight.

New2Midlo 54M
1075 posts
6/21/2021 7:00 pm

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lust4life59 65F  
2552 posts
6/21/2021 8:35 pm

 did they forget the word "schedule", as in the flight's schedue?


New2Midlo replies on 6/22/2021 8:21 am:
This also applies to non-commercial / flights, which are often whenever the pilot feels like taking off.

secret_lade 49F
9227 posts
6/22/2021 2:28 am

 Technically, wouldn't 100% of the crashes be within the last 8 minutes of flight? I know the article was probably referring to within 8 minutes of landing.....


New2Midlo replies on 6/22/2021 8:29 am:
Once you get past the first 8 minutes any crash that happens would definitely be within the last 8 minutes of the flight. My point was that if a plane had a catastrophic failure during the flight and crashed, or hit a mountain, it would end that flight rather quickly.

Whether you apply the word landing depends on your definition - any landing you can walk away from is a good one, but if you can't walk away from it, is it still a landing?

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